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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @mallardshead 3 Aug 2023 \ on: Why Everyone Should Care About Privacy tech
Solid. Been thinking about this more lately and researching some of the tools you mentioned. Hardened email is a given. VPN's are great. I forgot about deleting the apps entirely and going browser. Graphene I'm really considering as my next phone/OS.
Chilling point there about typing something into Google before backing out... That's all of us, and we felt that line; it's such a damn habit for some, and until Chrome is deleted and a privacy browser front and center with DuckDuck et al as the home page... Keep hammering the privacy brother. Never gets old.
DuckDuckGo has long now confessed to taking instructions on its search engine results.
I use Brave's search primarily now. Brave also has a semi-centralised, 25 word key for syncing between multiple instances of Brave (mobile, desktop, etc). I had mine breached a few months ago, definitely a good idea to roll over the thing every few months and strip out logins you aren't using any more, or better still, give them strong, long passwords and then delete them from your password manager (brave has one built in, that can be part of the sync).
I remember it wasn't that long ago there was a thing called "sailfish OS" whatever happened to that? Is that what became Graphene?
I haven't studied it closely because since about Android 8 or so, it's virtually impossible to find a non-google device that can be reflashed with an alternative OS ROM (I ran Cyanogen in the past on several devices). Rooted one of my motorola devices and all I won out of that was it being impossible to install DRM dependent "trusted" apps like banking wallets.
I don't even want a phone. In the future I will get a dump phone, I mean, an old, GSM only nokia or something, and stop all possible phone 2FA usage and switch it over to TOTP and FIDO2.
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Going to install and try Brave. I probably should have already. I've used Yubikeys for awhile and definitely would recommend them. @siggy47 has a great series on his Graphene OS experience.
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It's based on the chrome engine but they have forked a lot of core elements now too. The only downside to the thing is the shitcoin pimping their stupid BAT. It's easy to disable the buttons for the wallet and BAT "rewards" though.
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You just made me realize with the BAT shitcoin that I was thinking Brave was Impervious. Mixed them up. I actually meant Impervious. Any opinions on that?
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Impervious seems to be mainly trying to launch a platform for DIDs. They aren't so much focused on privacy.
That project got off on a bad foot with me, with ToS claiming copyright of content published through the browser. They walked that back but that was too much for me.
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Thanks. I have more planned.
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